He was spotted at dinner with football royalty in the form of Fabio Cannavaro, Christian Vieri and Juan Sebastian Veron in an Arsenal Nike training top, and showed off the club crest on his trousers during a television interview too.

Some Gunners fans have grown frustrated at Wenger's media duties while their club fail to produce the goods in the transfer market - although Chile's Alexis Sanchez is rumoured to be on his way.

Wenger, though, can still watch seven of his club charges in Brazil - even at the quarter final stage. Per Mertesacker, Mesut Ozil and Lukas Podolski (Germany), Laurent Koscielny, Olivier Giroud (France) Thomas Vermaelen (Belgium) and Joel Campbell (Costa Rica) are all still in the competition.

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